This is the introduction from noted scholar Hershel Shanks' book (Random House April 1998), an illuminating and readable background summary on the scrolls. Introduction Half a century has now ...

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Dead Sea Scrolls. Prof. Yigael Yadin knew for 7 years of the existence of a certain scroll in the possession of the Syrian Kando, to whom the Bedouins, in 1947, had ...

As you leave Jerusalem and go to the south and to the east, toward the Dead Sea, the terrain changes rapidly and starkly. You move off gradually from [the] ... rolling hillside, through the ...

“NASA is going to be politicized in a way that it’s never been politicized before,” the reporter David W. Brown says. “And I’m afraid there’s no way to undo that once it’s happened.” ...

There now seems to be fairly widespread agreement that the scroll of the prophet Isaiah comes from the late second century B.C. There has been much debate, and the question of the date has been ...

Gayle Anderson reports the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library has installed a new group of Dead Sea Scrolls, including the famed 4Q57 Isaiah Scroll, which is said to provide insight into how the ...

Deciphering ancient texts with modern tools, Michael Langlois challenges what we know about the Dead Sea Scrolls A copy of a Greek inscription, made by laying wet paper or plaster over carved ...